Tree of Hippocrates

The Medical Association of Cos presented a gavel made from wood of the plane tree to the President of the Canadian Medical Association in 1954.[5]

Tree of Hippocrates at the United States National Library of Medicine

Seeds or cuttings from the tree have been spread all over the world.[6] A cutting of the tree was presented as a gift from the island of Kos to the United States and the National Library of Medicine, and planted on December 14, 1961 on the grounds surrounding the library.[7] Many medical colleges, libraries or institutions have, or claim to have, trees cut or seeded from the original tree in Kos.[8]

Trees cut or seeded from the original tree can be found, among others:
North America:

• A cutting was planted on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham to accompany a commissioned marble statue of Hippocrates. The 1971 installation was a gift from the Nakos Foundation to the University's medical center.[9]
• The Canadian Medical Association obtained a cutting in 1969, which was planted in Walker County, Alabama in 1981.[10]
• at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI[11]
• at The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University [12]
• at Mercer University School of Medicine[13]
• at the University of Michigan Medical School[14]
• at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine[15]
• at the University of Victoria[16]
• at Yale University[17]
• at the University of Florida J Hillis Miller Health Science Center, where College of Medicine students obtained cuttings in 1969 and which inspired the annual Hippocratic Award
• at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
• at the West Virginia School of Medicine Library, Charleston, West Virginia
• at the Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
• at MedStar Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
• at New York Medical College / Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
• at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School [18]
• adjacent to the University of Utah School of Medicine, where it is planted at the southwest corner of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

South America:

• at the University of São Paulo, Brazil
• at the Londrina State University, Brazil

Europe:

• at the University of Glasgow, Department of Medical Genetics[19]
• at Queen's University Belfast Medical School, Northern Ireland [20]
• at the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences[21]

Oceania:

• at University of Sydney's School of Rural Health in Dubbo, Australia.[22][23]
• at Burwood Hospital, in Christchurch, New Zealand
• at Orange Health Services, Orange, Australia
• at Hawke's Bay Hospital in Hastings, New Zealand

Asia:

• in front of the Medical Library, Kyushu University, Fukuoka City (Japan). Donated by Dr. Hiroshi Kambara in 1973.

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  A gift from the Greek Dodecanese island of Cos, historic birthplace of Hippocrates, Father of Medicine, at the National Library of Medicine.
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  Plaque at base of Tree of Hippocrates at the National Library of Medicine.

• Tree of Hippocrates panorama 360 panorama view of the ancient Plane Tree in the Square of the Platane, Kos .